Our furniture and accessory buyers are headed to the big High Point MARKET this week. Will the colors show things are looking up? What would you like our buyers to order for the Toms-Price stores?
If you have an interest in mid-century furniture design, you may want to know that the Elmhurst Art Museum is having a series of exhibitions on architecture and design. There is a panel lecture and opening reception for the Glass + Steel exhibit on Friday, August 7, 6:00 to 9:30 pm. The lecture begins at [ read more… ]
The 4th annual Arts and Crafts – Chicago – Show and Sale will be at Concordia University in River Forest this weekend, May 30 and 31. You can learn a lot about mission furniture and the Arts and Crafts movement there. We will be participating along with 45 other dealers from across the country. If [ read more… ]
A most exciting container of great quality antique reproduction furniture has arrived at the Wheaton Toms-Price store! If you are looking for one-of-a-kind pieces, with enormous style at really affordable prices, you may want to take a look. I guess I have a passion for finding unique and unusual treasures. The flea market hunt is [ read more… ]
Ever come away from a bridal shower feeling like you needed one more than the bride? After admiring all the brand new stuff, it’s hard to go home to faded bath towels, mis-matched coffee mugs and cooking pots that have seen one too many boil-overs. And you think, maybe it’s time to start replacing.
I can’t wait to watch as our fifth store in Barrington begins to take shape. The approximate completion date is this September. Even as I work out of the great-grandparent store here in Wheaton, I know the newest addition to the family of Toms-Price stores will bear the same genetics, the same qualities of warmth [ read more… ]
It’s coming up on tax time again, time for all of us right-brainers to give thanks that there are people for that. I myself am not one of them. If I ever possessed an aptitude for an absolute science of any kind, it has long since been erased by years of subjective analysis doing visual [ read more… ]
Well, we’re at it again — circular saws are buzzing, hammers are swinging and soon the smell of fresh paint will be wafting from our newest construction project here at the Wheaton store. It can be a disruptive process, this ongoing effort to stay updated and current; and as we move and then move again [ read more… ]
